Quotes About Decorating

#1. Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

Nora Roberts

#2. I think they look like little pieces of green confetti decorating the grey cement walk and that seems all wrong.

Autumn Doughton

#3. What would you call your decorating style?" I asked. "Boring-bachelor? Or messy-loner? He looked over at me. "More like distracted-about-my-detainee-girlfriend," he said.

Katie Kacvinsky

#4. I also love real estate and decorating.

Deana Carter

#5. This place," Sophie said, looking around at the ranch-house kitchen the next morning, "needs a woman's touch. Or maybe a crack decorating crew from HGTV or DIY.

Linda Lael Miller

#6. I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.

Paul Smith

#7. I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

Rick Astley

#8. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Steve Jobs

#9. The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes ... That's the magic right there.

Duff Goldman

#10. An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Albert Hadley

#11. After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.

Hamish Bowles

#12. Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.

Kourtney Kardashian

#13. I'm pretty sure little hearts are popping out of my eyes right now. Here is this hot man, tattoos decorating his rugged arms, muscles tugging at the fabric, asking me about the baby's binkie while he holds her close to his chest. Hello, ovary explosion.

Lex Martin

#14. You might be a redneck if you watch Little House on the Prairie for decorating tips.

Jeff Foxworthy

#15. The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#16. I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

Ester Dean

#17. Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

Jade Jagger

#18. When we reached the auditorium, the whole town was there except Atticus and the ladies worn out from decorating, and the usual outcasts and shut-ins.

Harper Lee

#19. I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

Cristina Saralegui

#20. Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.

Samantha Isler

#21. I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

Jennifer Lopez

#22. A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#23. Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.

Ester Dean

#24. I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

Deborah Buck

#25. I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

Albert Hadley

#26. I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.

Barbra Streisand

#27. I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.

Jennifer Saunders

#28. Our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

Michelle Moran

#29. My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

Katharine McPhee

#30. N matter how stressed Claire became, the tropical trees and exotic island flowers decorating the lobby always managed to take her breath away and put her mind at ease. Nature had always been a good de-stressor for her coming in close behind having her hand held by Mr. Sam Stewart

Carolyn Gibbs

#31. What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

Tom Felton

#32. The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

Deborah Needleman

#33. Practically the first action of the Neanderthal - on the happy day he evolved out of the monkey egg - was to draw a picture on a cave wall of a man with an enormous willy. Or, indeed, perhaps it was the first action of a woman. After all, we're more interested in (a) cocks and (b) decorating.

Caitlin Moran

#34. Decorating is easy when you understand color.

Rena Bullard

#35. The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

Jeremiah Brent

#36. In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#37. My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Susan Isaacs

#38. It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

Robert Green Ingersoll

#39. Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning ... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

Malaika Arora Khan

#40. Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

Nirmalananda

#41. I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

Max Greenfield

#42. My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.

Kimberly Schlapman

#43. None taken, Ser Jaremy. My father is very fond of spiked heads, especially those of people who have annoyed him in some fashion. And a face as noble as yours, well, no doubt he saw you decorating the city wall above King's Gate. I think you would have looked very striking up there.

George R R Martin

#44. When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

Pippa Middleton

#45. Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

Charlotte Moss

#46. Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

Rachael Ray

#47. I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Suzy Bogguss

#48. Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

Tove Jansson

#49. Colter was so particular about the colors she used in decorating that she sometimes mixed her own. For the interior of Bright Angel Lodge she made a special shade of blue, and she was so insistent that the painters mix the shade exactly as she wanted it that they dubbed it "Mary Jane Blue.

Virginia L. Grattan

#50. This house is always going to be quiet now, I should get used to it. Laughter will no longer run rampant through the hallways, decorating each room.

Kimberly Russell

#51. My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

Nate Berkus

#52. She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

Anthony Trollope

#53. I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Johnny Vegas

#54. Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Charlotte Moss

#55. I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes ... not renovating ... decorating homes.

Andrea Gabriel

#56. My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

Candace Bushnell

#57. Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.

Rick Warren

#58. I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

Rebecca Romijn

#59. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

Jeanette Winterson

#60. I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#61. Normally Halloween was like Christmas for me. I would anticipate it for weeks, decorating myself and the house, as well as strolling around the neighborhood, admiring everyone else's decorations. Nothing lifts my spirit like a scarecrow in the front yard.

Damien Echols

#62. Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

Suzanne Collins

#63. I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

Ian St. John

#64. Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

Albert Hadley

#65. Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights. I look around: I see women who can offer strategic leadership, wisdom, counsel, and teaching.

Sarah Bessey

#66. After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

Albert Hadley

#67. My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

Anne Hathaway

#68. We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.

Charlaine Harris

#69. Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home.

Jeanette Winterson

#70. Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

Dorothy Draper

#71. For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

Jane Green

#72. I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

Joe Nichols

#73. All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Warren Zevon

#74. Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

Albert Hadley

#75. The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

Hamish Bowles

#76. It's important to pull tons of pieces! If you have lots of options to choose from, you can play around and see that things that you wouldn't originally have expected to work together actually do! That applies to both clothing and decorating.

Jeremiah Brent

#77. If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.

Lisa Samson

#78. By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

Virginia Postrel

#79. Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.

Busy Philipps

#80. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

#81. Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are inside before you spring something unusual on them.

James Lileks

#82. 'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

Tess Gerritsen

#83. Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Charlotte Moss

#84. I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.

Charlie Hunnam

#85. You can make the jar as an immersive pot of chicken corn soap for the winter vacations. You can make the gift immersive by decorating it with some funky colored flowers and by tighten ribbons.

Jaelyn Holloway

#86. Most of Ludwig's excesses involved pursuits popular among Bavarians, who shared his love for hiking, drinking, and over the top decorating

Susan Barnett Braun

#87. Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.

J.M. Redmann

#88. Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

George Monbiot

#89. I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

Andy Goldsworthy

#90. Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Peter Behrens

#91. I decorated this man like decorating a Christmas tree. His voice spoke jingles of love and his eyes shone like fake lights every time we made love.

Elise Icten

#92. She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#93. If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

Sylvester Stallone

#94. Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.

Daniel Tosh

#95. No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#96. Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Ron Ben-Israel

#97. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Katherine Paterson

#98. Decorating has always been my hobby.

Lee Radziwill

#99. I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas ... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as I do!

Lisa Lampanelli

#100. Not everyone's life is like a house that belongs to him and that he can go on decorating ever more richly with the furniture of his memory. Some people live in hotels, in many hotels. The years close behind them like hotel doors - and the only thing that remains is a little courage and no regrets.

Erich Maria Remarque